Skill Level: 1 | Assessing Authority: AACA
Job description
Plans and designs buildings, provides concepts, plans, specifications and detailed drawings, negotiates with builders and advises on the procurement of buildings. Registration or licensing is required.
Specialisation:
- Conservation or Heritage Architect
Employment
Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:
- obtaining advice from clients and management to determine type, style, and size of planned buildings and alterations to existing buildings
- providing information regarding designs, materials, and estimated building times
- preparing project documentation, including sketches and scale drawings, and integrating structural, mechanical and aesthetic elements in final designs
- writing specifications and contract documents for use by builders and calling tenders on behalf of clients
- consulting with Professionals and clients about external area designs, costs and construction
- compiling and analysing site and community data about geographical and ecological features, landforms, soils, vegetation, site hydrology, visual characteristics and human-made structures, to formulate land use and development recommendations, and for preparing environmental impact statements
- preparing reports, site plans, working drawings, specifications and cost estimates for land development, showing location and details of proposals, including ground modelling, structures, vegetation and access
- inspecting construction work in progress to ensure compliance with plans, specifications, and quality standards
Skills Assessment Pathway 1
- AACA Accredited Qualifications
If one of your qualifications is on the list of accredited architecture qualifications you can obtain a Skills Assessment letter through a simple verification process. Please visit the Verification of Australian Accredited Architecture Qualification page for more details.
- Other Australian Qualifications
If your Australian qualification is not on the list of accredited architecture programs, you do not qualify for the verification process. You may be eligible for the Overseas Qualifications Assessment if you have completed an overseas qualification. Please refer to the assessment page for eligibility and further details.
- Other International Qualifications
Applicants with other qualifications from New Zealand, Hong Kong or Singapore are required to undertake the Overseas Qualifications Assessment or the Experienced Practitioner Assessment to obtain a Skills Assessment letter. Please refer to the assessment page for eligibility and further details.
Skills Assessment Pathway 2
If you hold other overseas qualifications
Applicants who completed academic qualifications in architecture awarded by institutions outside of Australia are required to undertake the Overseas Qualifications Assessment or the Experienced Practitioner Assessment to obtain a Skills Assessment letter.
Skills Assessment Pathway 3
Skills Assessment Pathway 3
If you hold both Australian and overseas qualifications
If one of your qualifications is on the list of accredited architecture qualifications you can obtain a Skills Assessment letter through a simple verification process. Please visit the Verification of Australian Accredited Architecture Qaulification page for more details.
Other applicants are required to undertake the Overseas Qualifications Assessment or the Experienced Practitioner Assessment to obtain a Skills Assessment letter. Please refer to the assessment page for eligibility and further details.
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